The Price of Loyalty, almost half of UK Office Workers are willing to sell Company’s Information
A new report released by Deep Secure revealed 45% of office workers surveyed would sell their company’s corporate information. Just £1,000 would be enough to tempt 25% of employees to give away company information, while 5% would give it away for free.
- Digital; email, uploading to cloud services and copying to external storage (11%)
- Using steganography or encryption tools to hide exfiltration (8%)
- Printing information (11%)
- Handwriting copying information (9%)
- Photographing information (8%)
Type of Information Taken
- Personal Work (19%)
- Customer Information i.e. contact details, confidential market information, sales pipeline (11%)
- Company Assets i.e. passwords to subscription services, company benefits (7%)
- Value for their future career success in their next role (12%)
- To keep a record of their work (12%)
- Benefit their career (10%)
- Financial, specifically paid to do so by an outside third party (8.5%)
The Insider Threat and DLP
Often businesses have their heads in the sand when comes to managing their insider threat, although some do turn to sophisticated IT Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions as a silver bullet for managing this risk. However, DLP solutions would be infective against the final four bulleted ‘Staff Data Exfiltration’ methods listed above. Particularly the use of cyber tools to steal company information digitally has been democratised by the availability of toolkits on the dark web. For example, steganography toolkits, which enable cybercriminals to encode information into an image or text, can be downloaded for free and guarantee an undetectable route for getting information out of the company network.
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